Plugin Monday: Please Update Total Social Followers!
photo credit: billaday When I was building this site with Jerry Brito about a year ago, we were hoping to drop the total ReadyMadeWeb follower count from all platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner, and Mailchimp—into the little blurb you see at the top of the right sidebar. This can be done through a bit of PHP and ...
Read MorePlugin Monday: W3 Total Cache
photo credit: Elsie esq. Thanks to my friend and fellow WordPress webmaster Ryan Lynch, I’ve come to appreciate W3 Total Cache, a powerful alternative to WP Super Cache, what had been my go-to caching solution for WordPress. For those of you still at the novice level of web development, caching may be a foreign concept. ...
Read MoreTalking About WordPress at Blog Con 2010
At Blog Con 2010 I had the opportunity to talk to bloggers about how to get the most out of WordPress. Below you’ll find my slides from that talk. Topics covered include traffic measurement, the importance of human-to-human promotion, basic WordPress best practices, vital plug-ins, and plug-ins that make WordPress a lot more fun to ...
Read MorePlugin Monday: Customize Your WordPress Site with Advanced Excerpt
photo credit: trekkyandy Oftentimes in working with WordPress I find that I don’t want things to be as automatic as they are by default. Or, more precisely, I want things to be automatic in a very custom way to fit a certain theme and design. An example of this is excerpts, this WordPress function annoyed ...
Read MorePlugin Monday: Lightbox Plus
With over 92,000 all-time downloads, Lightbox Plus is a very popular solution for displaying large images elegantly in a WordPress blog. Lightbox Plus displays images in a pop-up, framed box while darkening the rest of your site. This is a much more elegant and user-friendly solution than either shrinking large images down or leaving them to be displayed as an image-only page.
Read MorePlugin Monday: Keep WordPress Secure with WP Security Scan
It can be easy to let security slip your mind when you're building a website or blog with WordPress. Thankfully, there are some great tools out there that will let you easily check on the security status of your WordPress-based site and remind you of further steps you ought to be taking to protect yourself.
Read MorePlugin Monday: Real-Time Syndication in WordPress with PuSHPress
Rather than waiting for your subscribers' RSS readers to notice that you have new content on your WordPress blog, push your content to them! Speed up your syndication PuSHPress, the plugin from Automattic that uses PubSubHubbub, the new real-time syndication protocol from Google.
Read MorePlugin Monday: Easily illustrate all your blog posts
Ever wonder how we manage to have a beautiful image illustrate every one of our posts on this site? Well, the secret is an incredibly handy WordPress plugin called Photo Dropper. It lets you easily search for, and insert into your posts, Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr.
Read MorePlugin Monday, er, Tuesday: Get the Speed You Need with WP Super Cache
In the spirit of the recent Daytona 500, this week we’ll be covering a plugin that will make your site speedier, WP Super Cache. Unlike other plugins that put more load on your server’s process and slow down your site’s load time, WP Super Cache make your site faster by creating static html files from the PHP that runs WordPress.
Read MorePlugin Monday: Take Control of Your Feeds with the FeedBurner WordPress Plugin
As we've talked about on ReadyMadeWeb previously, FeedBurner is must-have tool for any blog or website. It future-proofs your feed so it can move with you to a new CMS, it ensures that your feed is compatible every sort of feed reader, it tracks your subscriber numbers, allows you to monetize your feed, and pushes your posts out to update services around the web.
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